Re: [backstage] Use visualisations of audio in your mashups!

2008-06-19 Thread Alia Sheikh
er, the remains of the curry we ordered in at work late yesterday evening I'm afraid I didn't make innovative use of it, but some synergies were leveraged. Ohyes. Matt Barber wrote: Alia-currently-typing-this-with-one-finger-while-eating-lunch Alia, what IS for lunch? - Sent via

Re: [backstage] Use visualisations of audio in your mashups!

2008-06-19 Thread Adam Lindsay
Coool. That, indeed, is flap-worthy. I think I need to find a proper sleeping bag now. adam Alia Sheikh wrote: Hi Adam, sounds like you've read the white paper?:) so the current flap is about this promise we've made on the website: "At this web page

Re: [backstage] Use visualisations of audio in your mashups!

2008-06-19 Thread Matt Barber
> > > Alia-currently-typing-this-with-one-finger-while-eating-lunch Alia, what IS for lunch?

Re: [backstage] Use visualisations of audio in your mashups!

2008-06-19 Thread Alia Sheikh
Hi Adam, sounds like you've read the white paper?:) so the current flap is about this promise we've made on the website: "At this web page you'll be able to generate your own jpg visualisatons for your mp3 files and use them in your mashups. You will als

Re: [backstage] Use visualisations of audio in your mashups!

2008-06-19 Thread Adam Lindsay
Alia, Again, that looks nifty. For my thinking, though, I'd be much more drawn to the feature vectors that you're extracting, especially as it could possibly be combined with: http://developer.echonest.com/docs/analyze Any possibility of this happening? adam Alia Sheikh wrote: Hi again!

Re: [backstage] Mashed : Hack Moyles - Audio segmentation with RTMP

2008-06-19 Thread Alia Sheikh
actual flight was achieved, albeit briefly Michael wrote: On Thursday 19 June 2008 12:41:38 Alia Sheikh wrote: so we're currently flapping a bit sorting that out... Are you really /flapping/ ? :) Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please

Re: [backstage] Mashed : Hack Moyles - Audio segmentation with RTMP

2008-06-19 Thread Michael
On Thursday 19 June 2008 12:41:38 Alia Sheikh wrote: > so we're currently flapping a bit sorting that > out... Are you really /flapping/ ? :) Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.htm

Re: [backstage] Mashed : Hack Moyles - Audio segmentation with RTMP

2008-06-19 Thread Alia Sheikh
all fixed, in case you're waiting on that:) someone has suggested another CoolThing we could do for the audio visualisation stuff too, so we're currently flapping a bit sorting that out... Phil Wilson wrote: We're making that code, some demo apps and some open source applications available t

Re: [backstage] Mashed : Hack Moyles - Audio segmentation with RTMP

2008-06-19 Thread Richard Lockwood
I find the easiest way to skip the boring bits in the Moyles podcast is to simply not download it. Cheers, Rich. On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Peter Bowyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/18 Alia Sheikh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > So last week there was some discussion on this list about w

Re: [backstage] Mashed : Hack Moyles - Audio segmentation with RTMP

2008-06-19 Thread Peter Bowyer
2008/6/18 Alia Sheikh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > So last week there was some discussion on this list about writing an app > that let you skip the boring bits of a podcast, and I mentioned that we had > some code that would let you do just that. > > We're making that code, some demo apps and some open s

Re: [backstage] Mashed : Hack Moyles - Audio segmentation with RTMP

2008-06-19 Thread Alia Sheikh
since I'm about to add things to that page right now, this was extremely useful, thanks:):) Alia Phil Wilson wrote: We're making that code, some demo apps and some open source applications available that will let you use mp3 tags to enhance audio with images, chapters and descriptive text.

Re: [backstage] Mashed : Hack Moyles - Audio segmentation with RTMP

2008-06-19 Thread Phil Wilson
We're making that code, some demo apps and some open source applications available that will let you use mp3 tags to enhance audio with images, chapters and descriptive text. We are also providing enhanced versions of the Chris Moyles podcast for you to play around with. This is completely aw

Re: [backstage] cool visualisation thing for text

2008-06-19 Thread Alia Sheikh
yup, 'fraid so:) I just rather liked it wikipedia gets you any number of more useful ones under Tag Cloud Tools and Articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud Alia Brian Butterworth wrote: I just realised that these are just pictures, the don't actually do anything... 2008/6/19 Brian

Re: [backstage] cool visualisation thing for text

2008-06-19 Thread Phil Wilson
I'm just wondering if people actually use them? For example, they used to appear on sites like CiF, but they have been removed. Probably shortly after Jeffry Zeldman described them as the mullet of web 2.0 ;) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Re: [backstage] cool visualisation thing for text

2008-06-19 Thread Brian Butterworth
I just realised that these are just pictures, the don't actually do anything... 2008/6/19 Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alia, > > Thanks for posting that. They are quite interesting and pretty "word > clouds". > > I'm just wondering if people actually use them? For example, they used

Re: [backstage] cool visualisation thing for text

2008-06-19 Thread Brian Butterworth
Alia, Thanks for posting that. They are quite interesting and pretty "word clouds". I'm just wondering if people actually use them? For example, they used to appear on sites like CiF, but they have been removed. They also seem a usability nightmare... I'm guessing there is probably some massi

Re: [backstage] cool visualisation thing for text

2008-06-19 Thread Billy Abbott
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Alia Sheikh wrote: So I might be coming late to the party, but have y'all seen this? http://wordle.net/ Not all that late, as far as I can see - nothing particularly new (I have a backstage tag cloud tshirt somewhere...) but a nice and simple way of playing with clouds.